SIG P210 9mm Barrel/spring needed

[Michael Zeleny]

Originally Posted by PhilOhio

This unavailability of parts appears not to be accidental, but largely "rigged" intentionally by...well...you can guess. Just this week, I learned that the European manufacturer has a formal non-competition contract with LPA of Italy, which makes a wide range of top quality, low cost adjustable sights for popular handguns. So the sight can only be purchased through SIG parts channels. A virtually identical LPA rear sight, for most other pistols, costs just over US$40 here, and I have bought several. But for the SIG P210, the LPA sight can only be purchased outside the U.S., through SIG distribution channels, and it costs over $400, or about ten times the average U.S. retail price for virtually the same thing, with a slightly different male dovetail.

To spell out the information contained in the price lists linked above, the foregoing account has no basis in fact. LPA sights for the SIG P210 are neither limited to the European "SIG parts channels", nor priced anywhere near $400. In fact, Swiss Arms and their authorized dealers in Switzerland offer the factory micrometer sight, of quality far superior to that of the LPA unit, and guaranteed to fit the slide dovetail, for 380 CHf, or around $375 according to the current exchange rate, whereas the asking price for the LPA sight in Germany is 128 Euros or around $191.